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When Jessie came across the sea  Cover Image Book Book

When Jessie came across the sea

Hest, Amy. (Author). Lynch, Patrick James, (ill.).

Summary: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.

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  • ISBN: 9780763600945 (hc : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0763600946 (hc : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1997.

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Awards Note:
Kate Greenaway Medal, 1997.
Subject: Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction
Jews -- Juvenile fiction
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
Genre: Kate Greenaway Medal.
Topic Heading: Orphans Fiction.
Jews Fiction.
Grandmothers fiction.
Emigration and immigration Fiction.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Rossland Public Library E HES (Text) BR22287 Easy Volume hold Available -

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